1. Lauren Beukes was born on 5 June 1976 and is a South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter.
11 Facts About Lauren Beukes
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Lauren Beukes attended Roedean School in Johannesburg, and has an MA in creative writing from the University of Cape Town.
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Lauren Beukes worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, including two years in New York and Chicago.
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Lauren Beukes is the author of The Shining Girls, a novel about a time-traveling serial killer and the survivor who turns the hunt around.
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Lauren Beukes has published short stories in several anthologies including "Further Conflicts", Home Away, Touch: Stories of Contact, Open: Erotic Stories from South African Women Writers, FAB, African Road: New Writing from Southern Africa, 180 Degrees: New Fiction by South African Women Writers, and Urban 03.
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In July 2014, Lauren Beukes published a new novel called Broken Monsters, which is set in Detroit, Michigan.
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Lauren Beukes wrote 12 episodes of the Playhouse Disney show, Florrie's Dragons for Wish Films and episodes of the animated series Mouk for French production company Millimages.
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Lauren Beukes was one of the writers, together with Ben Trovato and Tumiso Tsukudu on the pilot of controversial ZA News, a Spitting Image-style satire show with puppets based on the work of South African cartoonist, Zapiro.
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Lauren Beukes won "Best Columnist Western Cape" in the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards in 2007 and 2008.
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Lauren Beukes made her comics writing debut with "All The Pretty Ponies" in Vertigo's Strange Adventures one-shot.
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Lauren Beukes wrote "The Hidden Kingdom", an arc of Fairest, a spin-off of Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning Fables series, and a Durham Red story for 2000 AD's 40th anniversary special issue.